SIEM Engineer Jobs

SIEM Engineer
UK

The median SIEM Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 705 888 949
Rank change year-on-year +183 +61 +243
Permanent jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 6 22 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.022% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.023% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 10
10th Percentile - £50,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61,125 £70,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £88,250 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer.

Salary trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +143 6 £55,000 -13.73% 212
UK excluding London +180 5 £55,000 -12.00% 224
South East +87 2 £55,000 - 52
North of England +40 2 £55,000 -15.38% 51
North West - 2 £55,000 - 22
London +118 1 £100,000 +17.65% 9
Midlands - 1 £59,000 - 48
West Midlands - 1 £59,000 - 27

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, SIEM Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) CompTIA CySA+
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) SLA
3 4 (66.67%) Use Case
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
3 4 (66.67%) AlienVault
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (16.67%) GDPR
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
5 1 (16.67%) Kibana
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Equities
5 1 (16.67%) Perl
5 1 (16.67%) Python

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Equities
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (66.67%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) CompTIA CySA+
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) AlienVault
4 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm